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I watched them play A Certain Romance live on MTV2 the other day. Or at least a live recording. I so wanna hate them but it was actually really good. The bastards. I also feel quite jealous. That song just sounds effortlessly good. I'm not a great fan of their other stuff but they are pretty good. Bollocks.

know why people see the need to hate them. They are a very good band, they've released a very good record. It's not their fault that they've been heralded as the greatest thing since the last great thing, for god's sake! All they've done is promote their music in the same way that any aspiring young band would do. If they were crap no-one would have taken any notice and they'd have faded away into oblivion like so many other young bands. I'ts not like they've had the weight of some mega-corporation's publicity department behind them, we're talking a good old fashioned indie label, Domino,who've been promoting music that they love just because they love it for years and for that reason alone I'm happy that Arctic Monkeys have made them a pile of cash. Since the sudden explosion of publicity and popularity in the mainstream they've done their best to play it down, seeming to me to be slightly embarrassed about all the fuss. All this carping strikes me as indie-snobbishness at its worst.

i think alot of it is good ol' DiS snobbery about bands being caught in the mainstream. arctic monkeys are a good band, not the best ever, not the best at the moment, but certainly not a bad band worth hating.

I don't know the exact girth of the members of the arctic monkeys, or even if there's actually 4 members or not, but you get the point, it's just mouldy old indie rock, innit, a bit tired, a bit dull, meatandpotatoes pint of bloke down the pig and bigot artless rock music.

Its got some great singles on it (BYLGOTDF, When the Sun Goes Down, A Certain Romance) and when its good, its really good. But its too inconsistent. There are a few tracks that weren't all over the internet for months and for good reason as they're a bit crap to be honest. I bet they're ace live at the atmosphere would be electric. I don't hate them at all, more to the contrary, I quite like them.
That and "From The Ritz To The Rubble" is a tune.